Van Hollen was tag-teamed by Fox host Chris Wallace and Portman, who did their best to monopolize the segment with one right wing talking point after another, and Van Hollen did very little to push back on most of them during the time he did have to talk.

This is a perfect example of exactly what not to do if you're going to agree to go on Fox in the first place, which is generally a really bad idea for most Democrats.

Portman and Wallace both were pushing a recent CBO report, which predicts big deficits in the next few decades, but as Dean Baker pointed out today, "CBO is often wrong and that its scores may not always be the best basis for policy decisions." As he discussed as well in his piece, the Washington Post suddenly discovered that the Eisenhower administration would have never committed the money to build the interstate highway system if he had been forced to have the spending scored by a CBO as we're seeing today.

There was also no push back at all on the fact that Republicans and the right wing conveniently cherry pick the portions of CBO reports that they like and don't like to suit whatever political argument they're trying to make on any given day.

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Republicans never cared about the budget deficit until a Democrat was elected to the White House, and now suddenly they're all about fiscal responsibility... especially when that means doing exactly what they've wanted to do anyway, which is to dismantle all of the New Deal programs which they've hated since their inception.

They should be called out for that every time they're on the air, but that sadly was not the case here. I wouldn't want to have to be defending the fact that President Obama put chained CPI out there as a bargaining chip, as Van Hollen was here, whether it ended up making Republicans look like the unreasonable obstructionists that they are or not, because it's not something that should have been offered in the first place. Apparently it's still too much of a lift for anyone in the Democratic party leadership to cross the president and admit it was a mistake, and a bad one.

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I don't believe in science. At minimum I don't believe in any science that my preacher says conflicts with the Bible. Does finding a cure for cancer conflict with the Bible? I'll have to wait until Sunday to find out. s/

Don't these mental midgets realize - rhetorical question of course as it is abundantly clear they do not - that Hitler who was a catholic and professed to be a christian acted on his "religious" beliefs when he slaughtered millions of Jews and that the KKK, many who have historically been devout Southern Baptist and such, base their warped hatred on their "religious" beliefs. Does this now mean that african- americans and jews can once again now be banned from the "lunch counters" of america again? Will ones perverted "religious" beliefs allow them to re-install separate water fountains for the "coloreds???

he number one source of knowledge for the Ku Klux Klan is the Holy Bible. One KKK member once wrote, “the Klansmen pins his faith to the Bible as the revealed will of GOD.” In fact many active Klansmen were ordained ministers. In addition, the majority of the members belong to some Protestant church.[The religious ideals of the group could be found in ceremonies such as the Klan baptism of an eight-week-old child in 1924 by a gathering of hooded members. In the early 1980’s, new religious fundamentalists used very similar rhetoric about Christian supremacy. The Reverend Bailey Smith, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention announces in 1980, “God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.” He continued by adding the fact that God can’t possibly hear the prayer of someone who does not believe Jesus Christ is the true Messiah.The Klan takes direct action against those who do not share its beliefs or those who it simply views as inferior based on its readings of the Bible. Klansmen recognize the differences of other groups and translate them into justification for hate. Most members already have a strong sense of white supremacist thought in their heads before they join the Klan. Ordained ministers in the Klan preach the Christian aspect of the Ku Klux Klan to members. These clergymen have been trained in the Church and added their own views to their religion to create an interpretation of the Bible that fits the creed of the Ku-Klux Klan.

A second term would have been all it took to put The Gipper's Alzheimer's into few view by all. By the time the Gip left office in 1988, he was full into Alzheimer's. The only ting the Gip could still memorize was a script. As an actor, it was the last ting he lost.